뜻

1. 생각하다, 상상하다, 가정하다
2. 어림잡다, 판단하다, 평가하다, 숙고하다

1. I think or suppose
2. I estimate, judge or consider

예문

• Quare verissimum existima, quod ille comicus dixit : (Seneca, De Beneficiis, Liber II 19:1)

  (세네카, 행복론, 19:1)

• Clodium tibi amicissimum existima civemque talem qualis et prudentissimus et fortuna optima esse debet. (M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to and from Brutus, LIBER PRIMVS, letter 1 2:5)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 브루투스와 주고 받은 편지들, , 2:5)

• Perge igitur, ut agis, nomenque tuum commenda immortalitati atque haec omnia, quae habent speciem gloriae conlectam inanissimis splendoris insignibus contemne, brevia, fucata, caduca existima. (M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, LIBER DECIMVS: AD L. PLANCVM ET CETEROS, letter 12 6:1)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 친구들에게 보낸 편지들, , 6:1)

• qua re eum me existima esse, qui primum pacis cupidissimus sim (omnis enim civis plane studeo esse salvos), deinde qui et me et rem publicam vindicare in libertatem paratus sim. (M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, LIBER DECIMVS: AD L. PLANCVM ET CETEROS, letter 31 5:5)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 친구들에게 보낸 편지들, , 5:5)

• habe tuum negotium nec quid res mea familiaris postulet quam ego non curo sed quid velim et cur velim existima. (M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus, LIBER DVODECIMVS AD ATTICVM, letter 22 6:11)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 아티쿠스에게 보낸 편지들, , 6:11)

유의어 사전

1. Censere, judicare, arbitrari, æstimare, denote passing judgment with competent authority, derived from a call to the office of judge; censere, as possessing the authority of a censor, or of a senator giving his vote; judicare, as possessing that of a judge passing sentence; arbitrari, as possessing that of an arbitrator; æstimare (αἰσθέσθαι), as that of a taxer, making a valuation; whereas, opinari, putare, reri, and autumare, denote passing judgment under the form of a private opinion, with a purely subjective signification; opinari (ὀπίς) as a mere sentiment and conjecture, in opp. to a clear conviction and knowledge. Cic. Orat. i. 23. Mur. 30. Tusc. iv. 7. Rosc. Am. 10; putare, as one who casts up an account; reri as a poetical, and autumare as an antiquated term. 2. Æstimare denotes passing judgment under the form of the political function of an actual taxer, to estimate anything exactly, or according to its real value, or price in money; but existimare, as a moral function, to estimate anything according to its worth or truth; hence Cicero contrasts existimatio, not æstimatio, as a private opinion, with competent judgment, judicio; Cluent. 29. Verr. v. 68. 3. Censere denotes judgment and belief, as grounded upon one’s own reflection and conviction; credere, as grounded on the credit which is given to the testimony of others. 4. Opinor, parenthetically, implies modesty, like οἶμαι; whereas credo implies irony, like ὡσ ἔοικεν, sometimes in propositions that are self-evident, whereby the irony reaches the ears of those to whom the truth could not be plainly spoken or repeated, or who might be inclined to doubt it; sometimes, in absurd propositions which a man thinks fit to put in the mouth of another; sometimes, in propositions so evident as scarcely to admit of controversy. (v. 300.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein